Enabling Disabling Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport

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I disabled my Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport network adapter from Control Panel Network and Internet Network Connections    Just right clicked on the miniport nic and clicked disable  and its gone  Now how could I enable it  After disabling the nic  netsh wlan start hostednetwork is not working any more  The response is   The hosted network couldn t be started  The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation   It was working flawlessly  before I disabled the adapter  Anyway  for reference here is the output of  netsh wlan show drivers   Interface name  Wi-Fi  Driver                      Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter Vendor                      Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc  Provider                    Microsoft Date                        7 3 2012 Version                     3 0 0 130 INF file                    C  Windows INF netathrx inf Files                       2 total                             C  Windows system32 DRIVERS athrx sys                             C  Windows system32 drivers vwifibus sys Type                        Native Wi-Fi Driver Radio types supported       802 11b 802 11g 802 11n FIPS 140-2 mode supported   Yes 802 11w Management Frame Protection supported   Yes Hosted network supported    Yes Authentication and cipher supported in infrastructure mode                              Open            None                             Open            WEP-40bit                             Open            WEP-104bit                             Open            WEP                             WPA-Enterprise  TKIP                             WPA-Personal    TKIP                             WPA2-Enterprise TKIP                             WPA2-Personal   TKIP                             Vendor defined  TKIP                             WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined                             Vendor defined  Vendor defined                             WPA-Enterprise  CCMP                             WPA-Personal    CCMP                             WPA2-Enterprise CCMP                             Vendor defined  CCMP                             WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined                             Vendor defined  Vendor defined                             WPA2-Personal   CCMP                             Vendor defined  Vendor defined Authentication and cipher supported in ad-hoc mode                              Open            None                             Open            WEP-40bit                             Open            WEP-104bit                             Open            WEP                             WPA2-Personal   CCMP                             Vendor defined  Vendor defined   netsh wlan show hostednetwork   Hosted network settings  Mode                     Allowed SSID name                 aczire  Max number of clients    100 Authentication           WPA2-Personal Cipher                   CCMP   Hosted network status  Status                   Not available   After executing   netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode allow  The hosted network mode has been set to allow   But again in   netsh wlan show hostednetwork  Hosted network settings  Mode                     Allowed SSID name                 aczire  Max number of clients    100 Authentication           WPA2-Personal Cipher                   CCMP   Hosted network status  Status                   Not available   netsh wlan show settings  Wireless LAN settings  Show blocked networks in visible network list  No Only use GP profiles on GP-configured networks  No Hosted network mode allowed in WLAN service  Yes Allow shared user credentials for network authentication  Yes Block period  Not Configured  Auto configuration logic is enabled on interface  Wi-Fi    Any idea how to re-enable the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport adapter  in Windows 8 Pro RTM    I m at my wits end  Please help

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You go to your  device manager   find your  network adapters   then should find the virtual wifi adapter  then right click it and enable it  After that  you start your cmd with admin privileges  then try   netsh wlan start hostednetwork

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In the device manager you can select View   Show hidden devices

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http   www instructables com id How-to-Set-Up-a-Wireless-Hotspot-Windows-7 step1 Step-1-Enabling-the-Microsoft-Virtual-WiFi-Minipor   and then execute in command prompt  ADMIN      netsh wlan start hostednetwork

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I have the same issue after I disabled the adapter in the Network setting  But when I go to the System- Device Manager and find it from the  Network adapters  and re-enable it  Then everything works again

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In my case I had to uninstall and reinstall the wireless adapter driver to be able to execute the command

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Try to add this hotfix  hotfixv4 microsoft com Windows 207 Windows 20Server2008 20R2 20SP1 sp2 Fix362872 7600 free 427221 intl i386 zip exe

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I had the exact problem and I couldn t find the hosted network adapter in network connections or device manager  So what I did was to disable and enable the wifi adapter after this the hosted network adapter should be listed in the device manager  then you just enable the adapter from there

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From accepted answer       You go to your  device manager   find your  network adapters   then should find the virtual wifi adapter  then right click it and enable it   Maybe your device is hidden - first you should unhide it from the device manger  then re-enable the adapter from the device manger tools

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Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport should start and bind automatically to the underlying function driver  Try disabling and reenabling the AR9285 driver

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